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867:(2006), a collection of five simple sports games in which players used the game controller to swing a tennis racket or a baseball bat, was bundled with the Wii console in most territories and sold over 82 million copies as of 2019.
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589:. A concerted effort to capitalize on casual games grew in the 1990s and 2000s, as many developers and publishers branded themselves as casual game companies, publishing games especially for PCs, web browsers, and smartphones.
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Seattle, Kiev, Amsterdam and London with what it said were "upwards of 7,000 professional attendees each year". In 2018, the show was sold to media company
Greenlit Content, who then rebranded the show "GameDaily Connect".
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875:Casual games can be found in many
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508:List of video game industry people
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678:(1980), which debuted during the
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1456:from the original on 11 May 2012
1424:"Tetris' Maker Has His "A" Game"
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1218:from the original on 2 July 2014
1169:Boyes, Emma (18 February 2008).
680:golden age of video arcade games
301:Intellectual property protection
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491:List of video game developers
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1208:"Welcome To Gaming Lite"
1117:Casual Games Association
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2131:Action role-playing
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1670:on 24 February 2010
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925:Hidden object games
851:Video game consoles
353:Episodic video game
39:Video game industry
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2763:Nonlinear gameplay
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725:Microsoft Windows
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